Being told who is Patriotic and who isn't‏

A retired army captain wrote recently inferring that disagreeing with the President is an unpatrioticthing to do and is demoralizing to the troops. Such hogwash would be laughable under ordinarycircumstances and times, unfortunately these are not ordinary circumstance nor times. Since this President concocted the idea of sending our military into the country of Iraq to destroy their government and take out their leader for questionable reasons and on dubious evidence, it has seemed to be unpatriotic to ask why? What real proof do we possess that makes them responsible for the attack on our country? As far as our intelligence services were concerned that attack was masterminded by Ossama Bin Laden and he and his people were in Afghanistan who we were fighting very successfully and we backed it wholeheartedly at the time. Then Iraq entered the picture and it was suggested that Saddam Hussein and Ossama Bin Laden were working together, that gave me pause and my first thought was just how long is an egocentric megalomaniac like Saddam Hussein going to tolerate another person as well known as he was and a following as big as he had in the same country, at the same time. The only answer was not long, plus given the fact that Iraq had been kept in a box with UN inspectors crawling all over the country for the past ten years and finding nothing, that question of what proof, just screamed out for an answer. But the question remained unanswered and it was unpatriotic to demand answers. The citizens of this country have always asked their leaders why? What is the reason? Even duringour revolutionary war, people not sure if our cause was right, asked why? It has always been that way in our free country, and the give and take of asking why and answering, even arguing has been called democracy in action. Now we have an officer from our military, a supposed person of learning and higher education that held the fate of many at different times who advocates that questioning and disagreeing with ourPresident is not only unpatriotic but should be expelled from a country who's very roots began withdisagreements with a king. This officer further contends that such disagreements affect the moraleof our brave members of the military. I contend that we now have an all volunteer military whose members are fairly well educated and have been schooled in civic duties, fully understand about disagreements with our President, more than likely have disagreements like that of their own but because of their job keep to themselves, I know I did away back when, plus a four star general has already addressed this question and also agrees that this does not affect morale at all.As far as fighting in Iraq so that our streets are not overrun with terrorists killing, raping and pillagingthat is strictly fear talk handed out by this President and some Republican politicians to continue refereeing the civil war going on in Iraq plus they have nothing but fear to offer. The insurgents our military are fighting have no means to come over to our country nor do they have any desire to.It is Shia death squads or militia killing Sunni for control, and Sunni militia or death squads killing Shia for control and both taking pot shots at our military. That fight has been going on for the past thirteen hundred years and we are not going to stop it now!